Woolton Quarry Building A Cathedral

A walk around the old quarry in Quarry Street, Woolton in South Liverpool. Starting in School Lane and Reynolds Park. The history of Woolton Quarry Sandstone which was used to construct buildings and walls around Woolton and its surrounding area and also The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. The Cathedral Church of The Risen Christ.

[@caravb5906]

Thank you. My auntie lived in a property on three levels on Quarry Street. Her sitting room was below a shop and her bedrooms and bathroom above the shop. Her windows looked out onto a garden which backed onto the quarry

[@strawberryfields1149]

I remember the eerie sound of the saws cutting the blocks as I walked over Mill Stile. Watching your videos and retracing my childhood memories has been most enjoyable. The parks are as beautiful as ever. The trees are more majestic. The sandstone corridors just as comforting, but there's just that something that's changed in little more than a generation...

[@Jeff1photo]

It's difficult to say what has changed over the years, it's not visual, it's more complex than that.
To answer your question before the edit, it was much better 50 or 60 years ago. Friendlier, slower paced maybe. But one thing, kids don't do what we did, they don't play outside, they don't play football in any of the parks.
Times change, attitudes change, but definitely not for gthe better.

[@strawberryfields1149]

@@Jeff1photo didn't want to mess up your channel with too much politics. If you fail to dismiss calamitous actions as coincidence and poor judgement the conspiracy label is peeled off the backing and applied with relish.

[@Jeff1photo]

My reply was specifically about Woolton.
I wouldn't say that the deliberate carnage delivered by successive councils can be seen as coincidence or poor judgement. It is was it is, carnage.
I tried to show in the Welsh Streets video that a Conservative government stepped in to stop a Labour Council bulldozing the whole area. But even so, a community is broken up and scattered while new owners reap the benefit of the rebuilds. I would have thought that was a controversial political point, but nobody picked up on it.
There's no easy answer, because the argument would be that people have better housing even if they were scattered across different areas. Some places were Victorian slums.
As far as I'm concerned you can say what you want, all opinions are welcome.

[@strawberryfields1149]

@@Jeff1photo I agree Jeff. the same policies were applied everywhere at the same time accross the country irrespective of the professed political leaning of those elected and involved.If voting made a difference it wouldn't be allowed. Divide and conquer, quite literally for the working class communities dislocated. Peace

[@user-hh1rl2yj6y]

Richardsons was the coal merchant (Chozzer was the dad and Eric was the son who carried on the business) And Billy Radcliffe was the builder etc and George Riding and Sons (George Junior and Geoff) was the haulier (my wife worked there for 11 years)
My father Leigh was a mason at the quarry and he lost his arm in the quarry in 1963. I can remember the days there in the summer in the stone saw shed and in the forge where I attempted to make my first horseshoe. Happy Times Hughie Thomas also worked there at the same time as my father

[@daveg8htfadlibaudio250]

Hi Jeff I remember in about 1970 myself and some friends setting up a portable Ham Radio station for a local Scout group, and I seem to remember looking down towards the Bear brand factory so it must have been by Mill Stile but I just can't quite remember the exact spot.
Keep up the good work ****
Regards
Dave Fletcher.

[@strawberryfields1149]

the st peters grounds extended to to edge of the quarry so it was probably 3rd allerton scouts?

[@nicktodd6705]

Hi Jeff I was one of those stonemason in the 70s having found memories of serving my apprenticeship at the quarry as a teenager many years ago now distant memories
Nick Todd

[@Jeff1photo]

Thanks for the comment Nick, looks a bit different now from its working days.

[@missread7781]

My father in law was Fred Bricknell and he took us on a tour of the quarry and the stonemasons. I still remember being so impressed. I may have seen you there!

[@practice2391]

Very nice, thanks for posting this. Even though I've returned for visits, over the years, I've never seen these houses so its all new to me. I do remember the Quarry but never imagined them building houses in that area.

[@Jeff1photo]

Nice houses, expensive cars and mobile visiting dog groomers too, it's all going on in the old quarry.